Properties of Kerr Spacetime

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Kerr spacetime describes a rotating black hole. The line element in Boyer?Lindquist coordinates (t,r,?,?) is given by d?s^2=-(1- ( 2M r ) / ( ? ) )d?t^2- ( 4M a r sin^2? ) / ( ? ) d?t d??+ ( ? ) / ( ? ) d?r^2+??d??^2+(r^2+a^2+ ( 2M a^2r sin^2? ) / ( ? )...

Contributed by: Thomas Muller

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